Emma Day is a nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab and is a human rights lawyer, specializing in children’s rights and technology. She holds an LLM in international human rights law from the University of London and a second LLM in law and technology from University of California, Berkeley where she was a Fulbright scholar. She qualified as a lawyer in Canada in 2010. Day has been working on human rights issues for more than twenty years and lived in Eastern Africa for five years and in Southeast Asia for six. She is currently based in Portugal where she works remotely as an expert consultant on children’s rights and technology. She has a particular focus currently on maximizing the full spectrum of children’s rights and human rights within technology governance frameworks, and in human rights due diligence.

Day is an alumna of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, and she is part of the European Data Protection Board support pool of experts.